It Would Come, Sooner or Later

Germany is the only place on the face of the Earth where a guy could be dead almost twenty years, and his song might actually hit number one on the singles chart.



Israel Kamakawiwoole's "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" is the tune.  Now number one for the eighth week in a row, released in 1993.

I sat and heard it almost eighteen months ago in Germany when it was being tossed around on Saturday afternoons by German radio stations.

How to explain this tune's survival in Germany?  I think's it's just the unique nature of the song.  Israel would likely be shaking his head....number one after being released almost twenty years ago?